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* The ''Xenoblade Chronicles'' series usually gives this moment the first time the player enters the game's first truly large area ([[VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}} Gaur Plains]], [[VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX Primordia]], and [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 Gormott]]).

* Used a few times in ''PhantasyStar'' ''4''. When you first get space travel ability, for instance, and see the world racing beneath the ship as you take off, and the planet you're heading to filling your field of vision in space... or during the scenes where Le Roof manifests as a gigantic illusion of the entire galaxy all around our heroes, accompanied by the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, Age of Fables. And in almost note-perfect fashion, when Rika leaves the underground laboratory where she's spent her entire life, and sees blue sky and sunshine for the very first time.

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* Used a few times in ''PhantasyStar'' ''4''.''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV''. When you first get space travel ability, for instance, and see the world racing beneath the ship as you take off, and the planet you're heading to filling your field of vision in space... or during the scenes where Le Roof manifests as a gigantic illusion of the entire galaxy all around our heroes, accompanied by the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, Age of Fables. And in almost note-perfect fashion, when Rika leaves the underground laboratory where she's spent her entire life, and sees blue sky and sunshine for the very first time.

* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': How about Dorothy stepping into Oz for the first time? From dull, sepia-toned Kansas to a bright, vivid, gorgeous fantasy world. Dorothy's clearly stunned, and can scarcely believe her eyes. It's a beautiful moment, especially if you see it on a big screen.

* ''Film/{{Thor}}'': During the end credits, the camera zooms out until our galaxy is a miniscule speck, then zooms out further and further and further, until it's revealed the universe itself is in the shape of a [[WorldTree giant]] [[NorseMythology tree]]. Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZdmrnzddeM here]].

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* ''Film/{{Thor}}'': During the end credits, the camera zooms out until our galaxy is a miniscule speck, then zooms out further and further and further, until it's revealed the universe itself is in the shape of a [[WorldTree giant]] [[NorseMythology [[Myth/NorseMythology tree]]. Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZdmrnzddeM here]].

* ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. Find a nice high spot on a clear night around the center of the map (the towers of the Corvega factory work well). The lights from the various settlements, including the glow of Diamond City, the starlit sky, and the waves on the ocean ocean are gorgeous. And to the south you can see a small patch of light glowing in the sky like a miniature aurora that's also beautiful. Of course that last one is the radioactive glow of the [[DeathWorld Shining Sea]] where ''everything'' will try and kill you, including just standing there, but it does look pretty from a distance.

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* ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. Find a nice high spot on a clear night around the center of the map (the towers of the Corvega factory work well). The lights from the various settlements, including the glow of Diamond City, the starlit sky, and the waves on the ocean ocean are gorgeous. And to the south you can see a small patch of light glowing in the sky like a miniature aurora that's also beautiful. Of course that last one is the radioactive glow of the [[DeathWorld Shining Glowing Sea]] where ''everything'' will try and kill you, including just standing there, but it does look pretty from a distance.

This can happen at any point of the series, though usually at the beginning as a hook for the audience. If used at the beginning, it's usually done to show that the cast is moving away from their normal life. If used some where in the middle of the series, it's usually done to show how far they have come, in which case the characters will probably get a ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere moment. If used at the end, it might either be used for the previous example, or to show how the entire world has changed. Almost always, this will lead to the characters suddenly realizing that they're about to fall, thus ending the beautiful moment.

For Fantasy films with a romantic subplot, this is the moment when a boy takes a girl [[DefrostingIceQueen indifferent to him]] into a mindblower of an experience flying with the world's wonders in full view and realizing to her wonder what the boy can do. By the time they come in for a landing, the girl usually needs no more convincing that she is not letting this terrific guy go.

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This can happen at any point of the series, though usually at the beginning as a hook for the audience. If used at the beginning, it's usually done to show that the cast is moving away from their normal life. If used some where somewhere in the middle of the series, it's usually done to show how far they have come, in which case the characters will probably get a ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere moment. If used at the end, it might either be used for the previous example, or to show how the entire world has changed. Almost always, this will lead to the characters suddenly realizing that they're about to fall, thus ending the beautiful moment.

For Fantasy fantasy films with a romantic subplot, this is the moment when a boy takes a girl who's [[DefrostingIceQueen indifferent to him]] into a mindblower of an mindblowing experience flying with the world's wonders in full view and realizing to her wonder what the boy can do. By the time they come in for a landing, the girl usually needs no more convincing that she is not letting this terrific guy go.

* There is a scene in ''[[Literature/{{Ringworld}} The Ringworld Engineers]]'' by Creator/LarryNiven in which Luis Wu and Chmee land on the Ringworld's wall. The sight of the Ringworld stretching below him, displaying a land area greater than the surface of the Earth[[note]]approximately three million times greater, in fact: there is a (full scale) [[http://s826.photobucket.com/user/Known_Space/media/GreatOceanMap.jpg.html map of Earth in the form of some continent-size islands]] on Ringworld[[/note]], momentarily takes Wu's breath away.

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* There is a scene in ''[[Literature/{{Ringworld}} The Ringworld Engineers]]'' ''Literature/TheRingworldEngineers'' by Creator/LarryNiven in which Luis Wu and Chmee land on the Ringworld's wall. The sight of the Ringworld stretching below him, displaying a land area greater than the surface of the Earth[[note]]approximately three million times greater, in fact: there is a (full scale) [[http://s826.photobucket.com/user/Known_Space/media/GreatOceanMap.jpg.html map of Earth in the form of some continent-size islands]] on Ringworld[[/note]], momentarily takes Wu's breath away.

-->'''Sam:'''It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.\\

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-->'''Sam:'''It's -->'''Sam:''' It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.\\

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